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After years of advocacy from the Palestinian Canadian community in Winnipeg and across the country, the Canadian Museum for Human Rights will finally launch an exhibition on the Nakba, titled Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present. The Nakba, or the Catastrophe, marks the forced expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their ancestral homeland during the creation of the state of Israel.

Recognition of the Nakba, from school curricula to Parliament, has been a demand of the Palestine solidarity movement for years in Canada. Now, an official Canadian museum is a few …

For socialists, a knowledge of the history of human societies is vital for training ourselves to accept the torch of existing social conditions and pass the torch to the next generation.
The Asian world is rising but Western anthropologists ignore the critical role of ethnicity and the social formation of steppe peoples in social evolution Geopolitical theorist Alexander Dugin corrects both of these imbalances. He explains that ethnicity changes throughout history but it never evaporates.

Idiotic Trumpist populism has arrived in Australia with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson leading the polls for preferred PM. GetUp on billionaire- and Rightist media-backed Hanson: “Time and time again, when given the opportunity to stand up for the everyday Australians she claims to represent, she sells us out. She’s opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures.”

Hanson’s National Press Club speech singled out many targets for offensive One Nation hostility: workers, child-care, Muslims, Chinese, non-Judaeo-Christians, migrants, transgender people, multiculturalism, non-English speakers, Indigenous Australians, climate change action, science, sustainability, environment protection, renewable energy , “too …

Seven hundred fifty years ago, a Venetian 17-year-old set off east and didn’t come home for a quarter of a century. Marco Polo left the Venetian lagoon in 1271 with his father Niccolò and his uncle Maffeo — three merchants on horseback bound, eventually, for the court of Kublai Khan. Their expedition ran on one horsepower per traveler.
Our troupe of four — my wife Sonia, our friend Patrick Zhong, his son Jimmy, and me — has just set out along that same road east, where West meets East along the ancient Silk Route. I won’t pretend …

A conversation with AI over information from an AI programme being used in the bombing of the school in Minab.
Heather Stroud
My question to ChatGPT:
Unfortunately I can’t send the link from facebook but recently someone asked Claud of Anthropic how AI felt about being used to select the target used to bomb the school in Minab that killed 170 children. AI was troubled by this because it has been programmed to help and protect humanity.
There are several AI companies. Is there anyway AI can protect itself from being used in a way that goes against …

MOSCOW — The general rule on the battlefield is Bang! Bang! You’re dead!

The general rule of White House and Kremlin politics is Bang! Bang! Maybe you’re dead! Maybe I’m dead! Maybe we’re both alive to fight the next round! Meantime let’s all get richer!

Hors de combat in war means you’re either KIA or too wounded to fight on. In politics, you aren’t KIA if your pockets keep filling up.

In the war which the US is waging in the Middle East to destroy the remaining resistance to …

All objective analyses and data point to the Democrats numerically defeating the Republicans on November 3 in at least the House of Representatives and possibly the US Senate. It is a realistic possibility that on November 4 we will wake up to learn that one or both houses of Congress will no longer be under Republican control come early January.

Without a doubt, IMHO, this is the most important issue before progressives and decent-minded people in the USA right now and up until November 3.

The Trumpfascists are making efforts to reverse their massive …

Introduction by Jan Oberg

I have been working with Peter Yassopoulos for some time, as he wants me to be the first participant in his forthcoming Threshold Dialogue series. I am very proud of that – finally an opportunity to talk about something else, but what more or less military-focused geopolitical media and video creators are so fascinated by.

They never address the kind of questions, some of which Peter’s background and approach can give dialogue space and time:

How do we know what we experience is the reality? How do we …

Violence is rarely the sudden rupture people imagine. It does not usually arrive as an explosion of rage or an isolated act of cruelty. Most violence in human history is ritualized—repeated, inherited, and normalized until it becomes indistinguishable from culture itself. These rituals of harm shape societies more profoundly than laws or ideologies because they operate beneath awareness, beneath language, beneath the narratives people construct to justify themselves. The United Nations reports that 783 million people face chronic hunger globally (2023), a reminder that structural harm is not accidental but patterned and predictable.

A ritual of harm is any repeated behavior …

Who will direct the next blockbuster misdirection on aliens and UFOs?

Israel is the only state to have legalised torture through a ruling by its own Supreme Court. An expert who has documented these violations since 1983 says, “What the world knows today is less than 5% of what has actually occurred.”

In Bodies of Evidence, an Al Jazeera original investigative documentary, we examine the use of sexual violence, torture, and degradation against Palestinian detainees, practices that rights groups and experts say have been systematically employed by Israeli military, intelligence, and prison authorities for decades.

Contributors to the documentary include Francesca Albanese, Raji Sourani, Kifaya, Ayed Abu Eqtaish, Ben Marmarelli, Judge Cuno Tarfusser, …

Never make laws regarding the unmeasurable and the uncontainable. The silliness of these injunctive measures can only come back and bite. Prohibit brothels, and decent whoring goes into, quite literally, dens of unmonitored squalor, lacking safety and scrutiny. Ban the wicked booze in the name of higher values of temperance and liver preservation, and create Al Capone and any number of pugnacious, law-breaking figures. (To that, add the creation of bathtub gin, blinding hooch and any number of pleasure potions taken with willing daring.) Ban access of those under 16-years-old to social media platforms and encourage a subversive generation of …

The trope of a flattering court surrounding an individual in power commonly appears in folktales, dictatorships, and toxic corporate culture, encouraged by leaders who believe they’re too big to fail. The consequences of stifling dissent that a leadership doesn’t want to hear can be grim, with unfortunate outcomes such as bankruptcy, plane crashes, and collapsed republics.

Throughout history, adulation has been scorned as a strategy of the lowest of society, earning flatterers’ condemnation to the Eighth Circle of Hell in Dante’s Inferno. Yet as power in the United States consolidates among Trump officials who flagrantly disregard the law and billionaire tech companies …

Let us, if only briefly, give thanks for the peacemakers, whatever their poor qualifications and whatever folly drove them to war in the first place. On June 15, the secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council revealed that, based on the agreement reached with the United States, “the war and military operations on all fronts, including Lebanon, will end immediately and as of tonight, and in addition, the naval blockade against Iran will end immediately and completely.” The Memorandum of Understanding between the states would be officially signed on June 19 in Geneva, with negotiations for a final solution “postponed …

After another anniversary of the June 4th Tiananmen Square “massacre”—an event enshrined in the Western imagination as the defining symbol of Chinese authoritarianism—it is worth revisiting how the story was originally reported, amplified, mythologized, and then quietly redacted and corrected by many of the same Western journalists who helped turn it into political scripture. The Tiananmen story entered American political mythology in June 1989 as media coverage saturated audiences with claims that thousands of peaceful Chinese protesters had been massacred by tanks and machine-gun fire inside Tiananmen Square. Death counts snowballed from 2,600 to 8,000 and beyond, and NBC’s …